“The Hunt for Wolverine”: Adamantium Agenda # 4 Review

Writer: Tom Taylor // Artist: RB Silva // Publisher: Marvel “…do better. See people before potential” – Wolverine The final issue in the Adamantium Agenda mini-series, one-forth of the Hunt for Wolverine non-event event, brings the reassembled New Avengers mission to end with two major revelations. When Iron Man’s team infiltrates Mr.Sinister’s no-longer clandestine warehouse of the world population’s DNA, the thematic conflict of the series is pushed to the forefront. Humanity wins, but the mutant population has some major changes on the horizon. So much DNA, so little time… Power, Potential, and People Keeping in tone with previous instalments in the series, this issue is a split narrative dealing with the present day search for Logan’s (living) remains and a past New Avengers mission.  On said mission, Wolverine volunteered himself to be the triggerman (say it in the Tom Hardy Bane voice!) for a radioactive bomb configured to work only with a living body. No one lives, dies, or resurrects harder than W, so he takes the blast.  Once the fallout clears, his healing factor goes to work on repairing his nuke-burnt body.  In this moment, at his most vulnerable and his most thoughtful, Wolverine appeals separately to Tony Stark and then his New Avengers teammates – Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, and Spider Man.  During the blast, he sees the name “Stark Industries” across the design of the bomb.  In a private moment, Logan reveals this to Stark who defends himself saying that the…